Muskegon's Deyonta Davis grabs the ball after blocking a shot by Mt. Pleasant on March 21, 2014, in East Lansing. / Al Goldis / Special to the DFP

Detroit Free Press Sports Writer

EAST LANSING — For the Michigan State basketball fan who pays close attention to recruiting rankings and has been fretting lately, relief is on the way.

The Spartans’ lone commitment for 2015, big man Deyonta Davis of Muskegon, is in the early stages of national notice after impressing at a Nike AAU event last weekend in Sacramento, Calif.

“Deyonta Davis is going to skyrocket up the rankings,” wrote Jeff Borzello of cbssports.com, after watching the 6-foot-9 Davis, who is ranked as high as No. 42 in his class by rivals.com but is just No. 103 in the 247sports.com composite rankings, which averages all of the major recruiting services.

“Despite being committed to Michigan State, not many people had watched him against other high-level players,” Borzello wrote of Davis. “Well, he's going to move into everyone's top 100 — the only question is how high will he go? One college coach watching him says he should be a top-10 prospect, while another said he's undoubtedly a top-50 prospect. Davis can do everything offensively, knocking down perimeter shots and finishing at the rim, while running the floor like a gazelle.”

Davis is the anchor of a crucial class for MSU coach Tom Izzo, after he missed out on Jabari Parker in 2013 and on Cliff Alexander, Jahlil Okafor, Tyus Jones, Tyler Ulis, Kevon Looney and Reid Travis in 2014. The 247Sports composite ranking of MSU’s 2014 class is No. 47 in the nation, though Rivals has it at No. 28.

Rivals has incoming point guard Lourawls (Tum Tum) Nairn at No. 62 and wing Marvin Clark, Nairn’s teammate at Sunrise Christian Academy in Wichita, Kan., at No. 147. Javon Bess of Gahanna (Ohio) Lincoln comes in at No. 119, but rankings are based largely on AAU play from the pre-senior year summer, and Bess had a huge senior season.

He was named Ohio’s Division I co-player of the year after averaging 22.0 points, 7.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists. In an Ohio Division I-II all-star game last weekend in Columbus, Bess had 28 points, nine rebounds and six assists, going 4-for-7 from three-point range. The Columbus Dispatch wrote that he was “clearly the best” player in the game after turning in a “dominant performance.”